This book is a window to the daily life and the environment of the Tikigaq, the Inupiaq people of "Point Hope, Alaska", as seen in photographs taken by young Norwegian artist Berit Arnestad Foote from 1959 to 1962. In Berit Foote's days in Point Hope...

This book features a fascinating exploration of the life and works of one of Revolutionary France's most significant female artists. Adelaide Labille-Guiard (1749-1803) was a remarkable portraitist and painter, she was also one of the very few women...

Frequently political and part of a concerted effort by artists and patrons during the early decades of the twentieth century to address a broad public, murals and large mural-like works often had a greater visibility and larger audience than painting...

Anyone studying a Van Gogh painting with its heavily articulated brushstrokes, dazzling color, and hypnotic perspective will wonder about the artist who created such masterpieces. Although some details of the Dutch artist's brief and tragic life have...

The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day. Wh...

Focuses on Homer Page's New York photographs taken while he was a Guggenheim Fellow during the late '40s.

This lavishly illustrated book explores the vibrant interaction among different and sometimes opposing cultures, and how their contacts with one another transformed them all. It chronicles the tumultuous history of Castile in the wake of the Christia...

This is a delightfully illustrated exploration of one of the most revered pieces of seventeenth-century ivory carving in the world. An extraordinary achievement in terms of its artistic rendering of the human body, its masterful carving of details, a...

This is a unique volume that explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment. This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-cen...

This is a delightfully illustrated volume that offers readers an entertaining and informative virtual tour through the magnificent art of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Featuring works of art from the legendary collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, thi...